| Zuckerbergs are new parents, vow to give away Facebook fortune Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:38 PM PST  Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced he had become a father -- and pledged to give away his fortune to make the world a "better place" for baby daughter Max and others. In a letter to Max posted on his Facebook page, Zuckerberg and his wife said they were going to give away 99 percent of their company shares -- with an estimated value of $45 billion -- in an effort to make a happy and healthy world for her and all children.
|
| Planned Parenthood shooting: Domestic terrorism? It's knotty Posted: 01 Dec 2015 04:19 PM PST  The man accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic brought several guns, ammunition and propane tanks officials say he assembled around a car.
|
| U.S. special operations forces expanding in Iraq to battle ISIS Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:15 PM PST  Defense Secretary Ash Carter told Congress today that the U.S. would establish a special operations "targeting force" in Iraq as part of the intensified military effort to fight ISIS. The special operations force would conduct raids, could free hostages held by ISIS, gather intelligence and capture ISIS leaders in both Iraq and Syria. It is part of the broader role for U.S. special operations forces that Carter said would occur in the wake of the raid in late October where U.S. special operations forces helped free 70 ISIS hostages in northern Iraq.
|
| Chicago mayor fires police chief in wake of video release Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:21 PM PST  Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired the city's police superintendent Tuesday, a week after the release of a dash-cam video that showed a white Chicago officer fatally shooting a black teenager 16 times.
|
| Giuliani refutes Trump's 9/11 claim Posted:  "We had some pockets" of people celebrating — not thousands, says the mayor of NYC on 9/11.
|
| Israel PM admits forces operating in war-hit Syria Posted: 01 Dec 2015 11:43 AM PST  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted for the first time Tuesday that Israeli forces have been operating in Syria, where the Iran-backed regime is battling rebels including the jihadist Islamic State. "We occasionally carry out operations in Syria to prevent that country from becoming a front against us," Netanyahu told reporters during a visit to northern Israel. "We also do everything to prevent weapons, particularly lethal ones, being moved from Syria to Lebanon," he added.
|
| Obama: Climate action an economic and security 'imperative' Posted: 01 Dec 2015 08:11 AM PST  US President Barack Obama said Tuesday global warming posed economic and security risks that had to be tackled immediately, but insisted the climate problem could be solved. If global warming continues, "then before long we are going to have to devote more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people but to adapting to the various consequences of a changing planet," Obama said. "Climate change is a massive problem, it's a generational problem," Obama said on the sidelines of the November 30-December 11 UN conference being held north of Paris.
|
| Police investigate death of Alaska's capital city mayor Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:10 PM PST  The newly elected mayor of Alaska's capital city had suffered injuries when was found dead, but police are awaiting autopsy results to announce a possible cause of death, officials said Tuesday. The adult ...
|
| AirAsia crash due to faulty component, crew response: probe Posted: 01 Dec 2015 06:44 AM PST  Indonesia's National Transportation Safety Committee said a major factor was a fault with a system that helps control the rudder's movement.
|
| Chicago creates police task force after officer charged with murder Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:36 AM PST  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced the creation of a police accountability task force following days of unrest over the alleged murder of a black teenager by a white policeman. The announcement came a week after the officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times. "The shooting of Laquan McDonald requires more than just words," Emanuel said in a statement.
|
| Trump says meeting with black clergy went 'very well' Posted: 30 Nov 2015 04:38 PM PST  By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump met a group of black pastors on Monday, some of them polarizing figures in their own right, despite objections from other African-American clergy and academics who have assailed what they call Trump's racially charged rhetoric. The meeting was held with the Coalition of African American Ministers, clergy from across the country connected to one another through the South Carolina-based Christian broadcaster, the NOW Television Network. The group included a former contestant on Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice" and a New York pastor who has attracted national attention with anti-gay statements and harsh criticism of American leaders, including President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.
|
| Chicago police chief out, review launched over black teen's death Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:25 PM PST  Chicago's police chief was ousted on Tuesday after days of protest over a white officer's shooting of a black teenager 16 times and the department's refusal to release a video of the killing for more than a year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced during a news conference that he had asked Garry McCarthy, police superintendent since May 2011, to resign. The mayor also said he was creating a new police accountability task force.
|
| Puerto Rico avoids second default, but future payments uncertain Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:45 PM PST  NEW YORK/SAN JUAN (Reuters) - Puerto Rico made a crucial debt payment on Tuesday but warned that its deteriorating finances could trigger future defaults, as the governor granted the U.S. territory power to take revenues from public agencies. There had been speculation Puerto Rico would default on all or part of the $355 million notes issued by its financing arm, the Government Development Bank. While Puerto Rico first defaulted in August, failure to make the payment on Tuesday would have been more significant because part of that debt was protected by the commonwealth's constitution.
|
| Islamic State's online supporters include 300 Americans: report Posted: 01 Dec 2015 12:08 PM PST Active online supporters of the Syria-based Islamic State movement now include about 300 people identifiable as Americans, said a study by academic experts published on Tuesday. George Washington University's Program on Extremism said in the study that the number of other Americans who passively "consume" Islamic State propaganda runs to "several thousand," though they are not necessarily active supporters of the group. Twitter is the "platform of choice" most widely used by the active core of American supporters of Islamic State, it said. |
